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Messages - Pierre
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« on: June 22, 2015, 02:38 »
I am referring to the big guns. Factories never pull their content collectively.
i think the lesson here is the music industry knows the score and is aware the value of free exposure on Apple Music is not worth it. yet another blow in the face of Apple and their freeloading sycophants. the bar has been lowered so much in the last 20 yrs that now finally it reached the bottom of the barrel : FREE ! as expected there's been a bold answer to this madness and this will set a new precedent, hopefully in the right direction.
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« on: June 22, 2015, 02:30 »
very good news ! Apple Music changes policy after Taylor Swift stand http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33220189
"We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."
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« on: June 22, 2015, 02:27 »
No wonder everyone is confused.
of course. these laws are unenforceable unless both the publisher and the photographer live and work in France and their photos end up in a high profile case. if that matters in many countries it's even illegal to shoot photos inside train stations and airports and yet how many people have been fined or arrested for that ? zero, i guess ... nothing is going to change until the major powers find a common agreeement on a sort of international "internet police", a kind of Interpol focused on online crimes. at the moment we're de facto in a Wild West situation that can only get worse, 80-90% of Youtube's content is openly illegal and nobody is moving a finger, even the legitimate copyright holders and their publishers. it's just too expensive and cumbersome to sue someone in a foreign country for having "shared" stolen material, all the odds are stacked against you, even the major hollywood firms had to fight Youtube for years, if they can't win .. who will ?
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« on: June 21, 2015, 04:50 »
Maybe not everybody realizes that mr Putin loves to divide and conquer.
if this was true the scenario would be very different especially in eastern europe. sure, now they're ready to bail out greece but that's the only realistic exception i can remember in the last 20 yrs, russia hasn't been directly involved too much in EU politics apart for oil/gas contracts and other import/export deals. in particular there's no widespread political support for russia among the major political parties in europe, only the european right wing is vaguely pro-russian but just out of desperation and anti-americanism. historically it's always been the UK doing their best to divide and boycott the continental powers.
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« on: June 21, 2015, 04:42 »
positions are inherited from their family members from the past that have started the project in the first place.
same for US presidents ... Bill Clinton and now Hillary Clinton, the Bush Sr and Junior and now Jeb Bush, the Kennedy dinasty, etc etc
Even if they are related, the positions aren't inherited. They still have to get elected. And it's nothing new. Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, both presidents, and FDR was a nephew of Theodore Roosevelt, with lots of different presidents in-between. They all still have to get elected on their own merits.
In fact, Jeb probably should have been the only other Bush to get elected instead of W.
sure they have to be elected but they don't start from zero like anyone else, they start from having already a family "brand" and all their political links not to mention these families tend to be billionaires so money is never an issue and you definitely need to be rich to afford a presidential campaign .. outsiders like Obama are just the exception to the rule.
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« on: June 19, 2015, 07:09 »
Free travel, one currency, freedom of movement, freedom of work, reduced loads of price fixing such as the mobile providers, constantly fining big US conglomerates trying to push their illegalities on the good people of the union. etc etc Europe is a better place for it. Not all is good, I dont like Europe messing with local laws, but its not all as bad as you make it out to be.
In your theory, all US states need to be separate countries too.
i'm from europe and i fully agree we're having it a lot better than in the 80s, traveling in particular is a breeze now but also working in EU countries is no longer a burocratic mess like in the past, you ca get all the red tape sorted out in days or weeks. said that, i remain of the opinion nobody needs this kind of monolithic centralized non-elected government elite, the original vision has always been about a federation of states. the way it's going now reminds me a lot of the USSR instead and will follow the same steps. for starters it's already a police state.
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« on: June 19, 2015, 07:04 »
The EU brings many good things, but does so much harm as well. They destroy step by step any business friendly environment, kill off startups with tons of useless bureaucracy and regulations, suck out freedom and independency of local governments and identities....I hope they continue pushing BS like this until it all collapses.
To you Brits (and Greeks :-) ): Get out of the EU. Independence and freedom is worth way more than a couple of trade agreements bundled with a truckload of unnecessary regulations. And no, the EU does not create wealth. Only amongst some already wealthy and "too big too fail" Institutions.
just like in china and the US, the core issues affecting the EU are systemic and they're also the result of 70 yrs of american involvement in the colonization of the continent. while the medias are busy screaming about the latest immigration scandals and emergencies very few are discussing about the root issues that led to the actual scenario. strictly speaking, we're witnessing the final stage of the moribund social experiment called "euro-style social democracy" .. negative population growth, high unemployment, millions of illegals crossing our borders in total impunity, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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« on: June 19, 2015, 03:09 »
Smug UKers. It's not good for anybody when they leave.
actually it would make sense for the UK to join the USA rather than the EU. as for Greece their Plan B is to be saved by Russia in exchange for lucrative oil/gas and military long-term deals, which also applies to Turkey, which is why Erdogan is now under fire.
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« on: June 19, 2015, 03:06 »
Yeh, on the other hand do not forget the primary purpose of the EU - which is peace among the member countries. What was unimanigable for hundreds of years was made possible by the establishing EU (or its predecessors). If one of the strongest EU countries leaves and the other follow, wouldn't there be a possibility of future wars again? I say lets reform and simplify this beast but keep it as tool which helps and not tries to rule us...
there are no wars in western europe because we've been imposed a "pax americana" in the US occupied territories after 1945, nobody is allowed to move a finger without the agreement of the US and NATO but once there's a common interest they're pretty quick in sending their warplanes ... see Yugoslavia, Lybia, Sirya, Kosovo, and now Ukraine .. ohh i forgot they're also running another color revolution in Macedonia now while the mainstream medias arent even covering the news.
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« on: June 18, 2015, 18:33 »
positions are inherited from their family members from the past that have started the project in the first place.
same for US presidents ... Bill Clinton and now Hillary Clinton, the Bush Sr and Junior and now Jeb Bush, the Kennedy dinasty, etc etc
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« on: June 18, 2015, 06:41 »
When major international banks go broke in a free market capitalism, there are no bailouts. They would go bankrupt. Read about the quantitative easing policy being done in US/UK/EU/Japan. Anyone with a good understanding in economy knows it simply devalues the currency, creates inflation and skyrocket the stock market, creating wealth for the top 0,1% and not improving the general economy. That's not capitalism, that's state controlled economy.
The banks finance all the mainstream political parties, so it doesn't matter who wins, politicians are always tied up. The few anti-EU/pro-Europe exceptions are effectively bombarded against in the media. Elections nowadays are a major distraction so people think they actually have a choice, while unelected eurocrats like Juncker decide the (catastrophic) future of Europe.
agree 100% ! but actually the big banks have been all bailed out, only a few small fish went bankrupt, with the notorious excuse that they were too big to fail. nowhere in the world there is true capitalism as far as i've seen in my travels, it's always a mix and if we talk about europe it's a horrible case of "social democracy" that looks more and more like a revamp of the old USSR if we talk about burocracy and planned economy.
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« on: June 18, 2015, 05:15 »
i wouldn't bother too much, the EU keeps pushing weird ideas all the time but there's no chance something like this will pass, it's also unenforceable and of course it can't be retroactive, i wonder who are these fools even thinking about such draconian laws ... pretty much ANY news editorial image is shot in public spaces without model/property release ! another stroke of genius from the eurocrats ...
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« on: June 17, 2015, 04:37 »
what's wrong with young people ?
mobiles and tablets are NOT professional tools designed to get any job done.
i can understand the millennials are literally glued to their phones nowadays, even when sleeping or taking a sh ... but it doesnt mean they can be any useful for production and especially for anything involving keywording and captioning as it would take 10 times longer than on a desktop !
sure, you will find mobile versions of photoshop, ms office, and even music sequencers like Ableton Live, but they're just toys.
matter of fact, playing with Instagram and similar cr-apps is probably the most you can get from a mobile nowadays and it's not gonna change anytime soon, quite the opposite the trend on mobiles now is about using images and emoticons instead of writing text !
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« on: June 15, 2015, 14:07 »
So true.
Maybe a photobucket of the future would be one where paying members have access to an in-house legal team who file copyright claims on behalf of members.
Just an idea.
if your photos are on sale on their site and they've been published worldwide by several news outlets then Corbis should just pay you, no ifs and no buts. it doesnt necessarily mean you need to find a lawyer, for starters try contacting Corbis rather than Demotix.
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« on: June 15, 2015, 14:04 »
@OP : write on http://www.lightstalkers.org/ about this mess, it's the only forum with active photojournalists, some of them also working for AFP, try also their FB page.
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« on: June 09, 2015, 16:25 »
Where I live in the northeast, $30k a year will have you just barely above the poverty level.
Is it worth it ? you could live fairly well with 15K or 20K anywhere in south east asia surrounded by hot girls and cheap booze.
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« on: June 09, 2015, 03:18 »
2) While i do belive in freeware, I do not belive in open source. There are countless hours of work behind the program, and I dont feel like putting it online and wait for the first guy to take it and start its own site profiting from my own work and maybe even selling the software. Moreover the program includes a license bought with the donations. (chilkat ftp2 library) and I cannot share the license online obviously.
Hope you all understand.. 
I mean it with all the best intent
no problem ! i understand very well.
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« on: June 07, 2015, 17:27 »
A Russian stock photo agent told me recently that a Russian photographer could live and support a family very comfortably on 50,000 roubles a month. At todays currency exchange that works out to about $886 per month or $10,632 per year.
The questions are: (1) Do these figures seem accurate? (2) Are figures for other Eastern European and former Soviet nations about the same or higher/lower? (3) What would be the average for your country?
you won't go far with 1000$/month anywhere in Russia, especially in big cities like Moscow where the cost of living is higher than London ! as for Eastern Europe that's a whole different ballgame. Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Ukraine are still quite cheap and 1000$ is OK if you're single but you will struggle if you've a family and a big home.
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« on: June 07, 2015, 05:33 »
from the very start google's model was all about leeching and profiting from someone else content giving nothing back apart the inclusion of their links in google's serps and ranks which for a while it happened to be a good thing but nowadays it's backfiring considering there's so much content around that it became dime a dozen in the eyes of the average users and that's exactly why you have to pay to see your brand on top of their search results !
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« on: June 06, 2015, 08:39 »
he cold release the source code and someone could take over his project.
if it's written in C# i could revamp it but only for windows.
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« on: June 06, 2015, 08:36 »
low earners are worthless unless they each make at least 5% of your earnings.
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